The pensions (!) apartheid
Thanks to Flickr user g-hat
Apartheid – described by Nelson Mandela as an ‘evil system’ – is thought by many to have ended in 1994 when twenty million South Africans voted in the country’s first free and fair elections.
Not so, according to the Institute of Directors – which has just released a report exploring pensions apartheid, a system which sees some British public sector workers get higher retirement benefits than their private sector equivalents. This, the business lobby group believes, is analogous to decades of black African racial segregation, discrimination and abuse.
Some ideas for future IOD publications:
- Shoah – gassing small business with regulation
- Gang Raped by Government – changes to the tax code for non-domiciled high net worth individuals, and
- 9/11 – terrorized by the European Working Time Directive
After all, when surrounded by evil, you have a duty to speak out.